Poets
Maya Angelou
A metaphor that continues through the length of a literary work is called...
An extended metaphor
A poem lacking clear meter or rhyme scheme
Free Verse
Emily Dickinson commonly wrote in which kind of meter?
Common Meter
Walt Whitman was called "The American _________..."
A. Poet
B. Visionary
C. Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Giving human traits to nonhuman things is called...
Personification
When a description uses one of the 5 senses, it is called
Imagery
Who is the current U.S. Poet Laureate?
A. Ada Limon
B. Arthur Sze
C. Joy Harjo
Arthur Sze
An indirect comparison using "like" or "as"
How many lines are in a couplet?
Two
When an author asks a question that is not meant to be directly answered, it is called
A rhetorical question
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson belong to which literary movement?
A direct comparison using "is" is called
How many lines are in a tercet?
Repeating the beginning of a phrase is called...
Anaphora
Robert Frost belongs to which literary movement?
When the ending of two words is similar
Slant rhyme
A line with 6 syllables is called
Iambic Trimeter
Alternating lines of 8 and 6 syllables is called...
Common Meter
Arthur Sze, Joy Harjo, and Maya Angelou belong to WHICH literary movement?
Postmodernism
The poem "O Captain, my Captain!" uses what kind of metaphor?
Extended Metaphor
A poem consisting of 3 quatrains of iambic pentameter followed by a rhyming couplet
Sonnet
Robert Frost